Egg-beater.



Patented July 10, I900. E. R. snowman;

55a BEATER. (Application filed Apr. 12, 1900.) (No Model.)

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z NORRIS PETERS co. PHOTQ-LITHCL. WASHWGTU a c NITED STATES ERNESTROBERT GODWARD, OF

INVEROARGILL, NEW ZEALAND.

EGG-BEATER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 653,233, dated July 10,1900.

Application filed April 12, 1900.

To all whom it incty concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST ROBERT Gon- WARD, a subject of the Queen ofGreat Britain, residing at Invercargill, in the Colony of New Zealand,have invented a new and useful Egg-Beater, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to utensils for beating eggs, its object being toprovide a portable beater by which eggs may be rapidly and thoroughlybeaten. l

The heater comprises a cylinder provided with a cap, preferably at bothends, for purposes of cleaning, and secured by a bayonet or otherconvenient fastening. On the inside and at the center of the capsconical bearings are fixed to receive the ends of a spindle, upon whichcutters are mounted. I prefer to make the cutters in two spirals andconical in form, with a fiat spiral cutter separating the two spiralcutters; but the form of the cutters may be variedas, for example,concentric bands with connecting-pieces may be eniployed or radialcutters of varying lengths, or combinations of these forms may be used.I prefer to make the cutters of tin-plate, for cheapness, cut intobands.

Aeration may be provided by means of valves in the caps.

Washers between the caps and the cylinder make an air-tight joint andprevent escape of the contents while being beaten.

The cylinder is grasped in the hand and vigorously shaken, whichoperation a cook can perform while walking about and attending to otherduties. The beater can be laid down and taken up again during theprocess of treating the eggs.

The heater is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which show theform I prefer my invention to take.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of the beater. Fig. 2 is a crosssection on line A A, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view, on a larger scale, of abayonet fastening. Fig. 4 represents an air-valve on a larger scale.

Similar figures of reference indicate corre sponding parts wherever theyoccur in theseveral views.

1 is the cylinder.

2 represents caps fitting upon the ends of seen No. 12,699. (No modelJthe cylinder and held by the bayonet-fastenings 3, of which 4 is a bossformed on the cylinder 1 or a rim 5,- attached to the cylinder, and 6 isa channel, part of which forms a spiral upon the lid.

'7 represents cups or conical bearings.

8 is a spindle.

9, 10, and 11 are cutters attached to the spindle.

12 represents washers.

13 represents valves opening inward to admit air,'but normally held ontheir seats 14 by light springs 15. In operation the air alternatelyenters and escapes through the valves.

To use the beater, one lid is removed, the spindle, with its cutters,inserted, and the egg poured in. The lid is replaced by passing the boss4 within the channel 6 and then turning the lid around and the cylindershaken while being grasped in the hand. The washers 12 make tight jointsbetween the lid and the cylinder.

The cups '7 are made conical, so that they may readily pass upon theends of the spindles when the lid is being adjusted.

The details hereinbefore described may be 'modified, the forms shownrepresenting those which I prefer.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

1. Anegg-beater comprising a cylindrical receptacle, a spindle extendingaxially thereof from end to end of the same, a coiled cutter arrangedtransversely of the spindle centrally thereof and conically-coiledcutters on each side of the transverse cutter having their apicesarranged adjacent to the transverse cutters, substantially as described.

2. In an egg-beater, the combination of a cylinder, covers fastened tothe cylinder by bayonet-joints, a spindle, spiral cutters of thin metalfixed to the spindle and a coiled cutter arranged between the spiralcutters, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my I hand in presence of twowitnesses. V

ERNEST ROBERT GODWARD. Witnesses:

D. W. MCKAY, W. J. P. HARVEY.

